Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D., of Rice University, has devoted her career to understanding how technology can improve health and save...
Diagnostic Imaging
What if you could diagnose autism just by looking at how a child's eyes move? While the technology is...
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Blacklegged ticks, or deer ticks, are tiny. But the problems they cause, like Lyme disease, can be big. Most humans...
Lyme Disease
Can taking a daily vitamin D supplement prevent diabetes? Which is better for lowering your risk of diabetes: lifestyle changes...
Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes
Helping kids with diabetes is a passion for National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical researcher Stephanie Chung, M.B.B...
Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes
Intermittent fasting has gotten a lot of attention recently—everyone from celebrities to social media influencers is talking about it. The...
Intermittent Fasting
For the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), 2020 is an important year. It marks the 20th anniversary of...
Medical Technology
"We urgently need more research to better understand the basic biology behind the development of endometriosis." - Lisa Halvorson,...
Endometriosis
"Many people believe that vitiligo is a rare disease," says National Institutes of Health-supported researcher John E. Harris, M...
Vitiligo
Working with NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, John Pandolfino, M.D., studies how to...
Heartburn
Sickle cell disease (SCD) specialists have performed bone marrow transplants in children since the 1990s. This procedure is the only...
Sickle Cell Disease
Russell E. Ware, M.D., Ph.D., had been researching sickle cell disease (SCD) in the U.S. for about 10...
Sickle Cell Disease
Many people with sickle cell disease (SCD) are healthier and living longer thanks in part to research led and supported...
Sickle Cell Disease
Imagine driving and forgetting where you're going. Or feeling tremors in your hands when you try to pick up...
Lewy Body Dementia
Wondering how you can help a friend, family member, or co-worker who is overwhelmed by anxiety? We spoke to David...
Anxiety
"Stuttering gets no respect as a disorder," says stuttering expert Dennis Drayna, Ph.D. "People think of it as...
Stuttering
"There's a great deal of misunderstanding about stuttering," says Dennis Drayna, Ph.D., a scientist emeritus with NIH’s...
Stuttering
Daniel Pine, M.D., studies how differences in our brains can affect our mental health. Through their work at the National...
Anxiety
For more than 25 years, scientists at NIH have studied human sleep habits. They've researched everything from how sleep affects...
Sleep Apnea
Angela Christiano, Ph.D., is not a typical researcher. Dr. Christiano studies a hair loss disease called alopecia areata. She...
Alopecia Areata
